Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.